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  1. The brands that make the phone offer the live mic support too. No extra special user interaction needed to enjoy that live mic collection.

  2. The NSA, GCHQ and the ads get around that by saying no real human is listening in real time.
    No human listening in so thats not really "wiretapping". A computer collects all the images, looks for all words used, sounds, spoken works and creates a data set.
    No human can listen into a dataset so thats still legal.

    The way out is not to have a live mic in the room.
    To not use a smartphone with ad supported apps.
    Never trust a free big brand OS. Never trust a browser that offers more supports to ads than its users.

  3. Dont use a computer with a live mic. Connect a mic when its needed for the app thats trusted.

  4. No human is looking at the words and images collected. A computer looks over each word and image. That data set is then worked on for ads.
    As no human is looking its legal.

  5. A live mic in a room thats collecting user data for a lot of brands. Dont worry no human is listening. A computer system gets every word spoken into a type of data. A type of data is not a human listening in real time so its legal.

  6. Re:Fraudulent asylum applications != Refugees on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    Illegal migrants have considered such fraud prevention in every nation they could register in. Thats why they don't register in the first safe nation they enter.
    A bank account for payments from a gov linked to photo ID linked to biometric data at a federal level? Avoid that nation with good banking laws.
    A nation that allows an illegal migrant to register under a list of names and has no active reconciliation between gov payments, the ID and banks? Try that nation that will not investigative fraud.

    Someone is offering legal insight to illegal migrants into the enforcement of each nation and directing illegal migrants to nations that do not track their banking systems and photo ID's

  7. Re:Simple solution on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    The phone has to get the illegal migrants past a lot of nations to the nation they want to register in.
    Real time maps past police, past security services. Someone is selling many nations police information to illegal migrants.
    That information them provides a way illegal migrants can move from safe nation to nation and not have to register.
    That cell phone is the digital link back to corrupt gov officials and corrupt police.
    Someone is ensuring police are not getting to every illegal migrant as they wonder in and move from nation to nation.

  8. Illegal migrants on Europe is Using Smartphone Data as a Weapon To Deport Refugees (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    By the time they are in your nation its too late.
    Lawyers and political activists will be supporting their fake claims that they are all refugees.

    Police forces need to follow the funding and the support that allow illegal migrants to pass entire nations security services.
    Who is allowing illegal migrants to pass any number of safe nations to get to your nation?
    Are hostile nations using a constant flow of supported illegal migrants as a way to weaken your nation?
    Who is ensuring illegal migrants do not register in the many other safe nations but keep moving to finally register in your nation?
    Someone is providing a way around police registration in the first safe nation they are guidedl past.
    Who is not enforcing the immigration laws and protecting your nations borders?
    A person who wonders in should be registered on arrival and then have their refugee claim considered in the first safe nation they walk into.
    Put some CCTV in all your airports, train stations, ports and along roads. Scan every new face wondering up a road from a border.
    Match that face to a passport presented and see if the person has valid papers?
    A tourist? Doing study? Business trip? Got the correct paperwork? A registered refugee?
    Who is supporting people with no passports and no legal papers to wonder around so many nations?
    The new funds to move from nation to nation? Who is giving away the real time maps past police and security services?

    A solution is to create a new security service to ensure all other mil/gov/security service staff are not supporting illegal migrants.
    A random walk in with a request to create fake documents, to buy refugee paperwork, to not register a person, to guide a person past the nations registration?
    See how the police, bureaucracy, official reacts to such offers and who is keeping your nation safe.
    Open to bribes and cash payments to allow illegal migrants to keep moving? Bring in police who are not corrupt and enforce your nations laws.
    Use the smartphone track the hops of the local support networks. Illegal migrants flow past the shift work of some police and some security officials every day?
    Use CCTV to work out who the gov is letting all the illegal migrants walk in and not register.
    Find out why police and security services are not doing their jobs. Who is working hard to find and deport illegal migrants? Who in the police is getting more cash, is spending, is corrupt. Who in the police, gov is spending well above their wage when working with illegal migrants? Smartphone data is great for finding corrupt police/gov too.

  9. Is anyone a fan of paper insulated wireline as a network for everyone under federal NN rules?

  10. Re:Other price-raising strategies? on As Cryptocurrency Values Plummet, Graphics Card Pricing Improves Dramatically (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    5K and 8K computer games. Ray tracing.

  11. Re:So developing economies can afford a UBI now? on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    The cost of "a lot less stuff to administer." is not going to cover the new cost of giving all citizens free money for many decades.
    A computer system to see if a person is old, working, not working, paying their tax, doing more study, wealthy, poor is not a "big cost reduction on the side of the government" as most of that is now automated.
    The UBI cost would make nations fail.

  12. Re:So developing economies can afford a UBI now? on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    Re UBI is not that much more expensive than current taxes IF implemented as a replacement
    That has to give every citizen new money they are not getting now.
    Such new money will have to be created by new taxes.
    Taxes on the middle class, work, savings, land use, the ownership of anything, profits, permits.
    A UBI will make any UBI nation a nation to avoid investing in as so many new taxes would have to cover the UBI.

    Re "A bigger problem is, when everyone has UBI how will prices develop ?"
    A nation with a UBI wont develop. People will just spend their UBI and then want more support to make up for the new normal of their UBI spending.

  13. Re:Finally someone is waking up! on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    A means-tested UBI for citizens paid into a direct deposit with a lot of citizenship tests?
    Once the citizen gets any work the UBI stops.
    Citizenship gets the UBI. Work stops the UBI payment. Stop working and the UBI returns.
    That would avoid having to pay working people a UBI ....

  14. Re:Finally someone is waking up! on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Where is that wealth? The only place to extract a UBI from is the middle class and rich.
    Poor people don't pay much tax. Use cash and are on gov welfare. Thats not going to make up the UBI numbers.
    So the rich and middle class are going to have to pay a lot more tax.
    Tax investments and savings and rich people move that to other nations that don't have a UBI.

  15. Re:Finally someone is waking up! on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Re "easily pay for UBI" AC?
    What new tax covers for what the VAT is paying for now? Moving tax around can calling a VAT a UBI?
    That VAT is already in use and is gone for new spending.
    So where is the money going to get taxed from to cover a UBI? The middle class? The rich?
    How much more new tax do people who work have to pay to give every citizen in a nation a UBI?
    Robots are doing the work. The factory and work on the land is reduced to people looking after the new robots.
    With a lot of people not working a 10 to 20% exiting VAT is not going to cover a new 100% UBI for all citizens AC.

  16. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Would You Pay $700, Plus a Monthly Fee, For a Digital License Plate? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    That internet connection is going to be great in High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas.
    A GUI map of every car that stops, parks, meets up in real time.

  17. Re:Media + telco = same profits on AT&T Promised Lower Prices After Time Warner Merger -- It's Raising Them Instead (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Consumer might start to expect that the "pass savings" on becomes a norm after every merge.. Not an expected precedent anyone wants to be the first to set.
    Re "cheap marketing with improved public opinion"
    Its a media company selling to the USA and a telco thats networked in parts of the USA not a start up.
    Businesses at that level just want more profits every year and the consumers to understand that prices have to go up for 4K, new media, better networks.

  18. Re:Finally someone is waking up! on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not all nations have them. Many would rather attract new investment than do tax collection for other nations.
    Still have to find a way to pay for that UBI in a nation using its own national tax rate.

  19. Re:I don't understand on Would You Pay $700, Plus a Monthly Fee, For a Digital License Plate? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The same reason people pay for special license plates and thinner license plates...

  20. Re:Finally someone is waking up! on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Re "Very high-end beneficiaries of capital gains, both long and short term"
    The kind of old and new money that can exit any nation with a UBI for attractive nations with no such tax experiments.

  21. Re:Media + telco = same profits on AT&T Promised Lower Prices After Time Warner Merger -- It's Raising Them Instead (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would any results of "leverage to use during price negotiations" need to be passed onto the consumers?

    Why drop the price when the population is paying that price now and will accept paying more for HD and new 4K?
    New networks to ensure 4K is great and new media to entertain costs money.
    The consumers pay what they pay now and can be told to pay more for new updates.

  22. Re:Finally someone is waking up! on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    With the citizens not spending and buying who can a nation tax for a UBI?

  23. So developing economies can afford a UBI now? on Economists Worry We Aren't Prepared For the Fallout From Automation (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Who is going to pay for a full UBI in a third world nation?
    The factory owner will get to:
    Use robots in their own nation and block a UBI tax politically/legally.
    Any smart nation will offer no UBI tax and the ability to use robots.
    Move to another nation where they don't have to pay for a UBI tax and build a new factory with robots.

    In a nation with a fixed product and the political drive for a UBI? Time for a color revolution. Go full coup.
    No factory, land owner is going to allow a new UBI to tax them at 110% to just give their wealth away for free.

  24. Re It'll be cheap, and it'll work.

    Make all US internet into one big utility cooperative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... ?
    Connect all the cooperatives and span the USA?
    That would be some neat deregulation and removal of all federal rules and no more NN rules.

  25. Media + telco = same profits on AT&T Promised Lower Prices After Time Warner Merger -- It's Raising Them Instead (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would adding a big media comply to a big telco company change the costs of networks around the USA? Lower TV prices?
    The media company has to make media.
    The telco connects networks and makes a profit.
    Same costs to network, same need for profit.
    That best possible streaming will be HD going to 4K.